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Lightning Warriors

Yesterday my friend told me about a man he met who had been struck by lightning.  As he was doing healing work on this man he felt almost-painful sparks of energy going into his hands.

My guides said: "Lightning Warrior" and an image came to me of the powerful transformation that people who are struck by lightning undergo...

...and the energy they now wield because of it.

The Lightning Energy
With this energy they have the power to affect changes in the grid down here from the base, from Earth.

From their electrical changes and charges they can affect super-charged transition in people by laying on hands, doing work spiritually and by letting that energy which was given them flow through them to where it wants to be.

In fact, a person who has been struck by lightning and who is suffering from the effects of it may feel incredible relief on some level by transferring the energy. That kind of electrical charge needs a place to go (which is the point of lightning in the first place; the energy in the atmosphere is so great it grounds itself by reaching out to merge).

The Purpose Of Becoming A Lightning Warrior
I am not suggesting that being hit by lightning is a fun experience.  My Quero Apache Auntie, Maria, was been struck by lightning years ago and is suffering physical difficulties because of it.

This man my friend mentioned is also suffering physical difficulties because of his encounter with lightning.

But that does not mean there is no purpose to it.

I cannot pretend to understand each person's encounter with lighting in this post, nor will I try.  But after my talk with my friend yesterday my Guides made it clear:

Write about the Lightning Warrior.

So if you know someone who was struck by lightning (or if you were yourself) maybe this post can help.

The message is that those who have been struck by lightning have a special energy which, now that you walk on the Earth with it, is a powerful tool for helping the planet shift.

It's like you have a gift that is usually reserved for the ether in your body.  And you can use it, if you choose to, to affect great electrical, energetic and planet-wide shifts.

Walk The Warrior Path
Tell the Universe "I am ready" and let the path unfold where you lay your hands, set your intent and direct your vision to where it feels called.

You may feel greater peace and ease because of it.  But you will certainly help the world and for that we thank you.

- Alora and her Guides

My Past Life Regression And A Banana

I just had a Past Life Regression with a wonderful woman I discovered through that great combination of Guidance and Google.

(Her name is Swati, if you're ever in San Jose, CA and want a PLR, I highly recommend her.  She has such a soul-path with the work and has such a loving, healing way about her.)

There is so much I am integrating from today but the message that comes out loud and clear to me is about letting go so we can flow.

What's Yellow And...
If there are things we are holding on to that we are done with but are afraid to throw out, like that banana that you might eat but probably won't eat that you leave on the counter until it's totally spotted.

But maybe you will eat it - there might be some good part left in it still - and you spent money for it, and it's food after all that should not go to waste - so you leave it there on the counter some more...

Until now it's a brown and black mushy yuck of banana that you are disgusted about and don't want to touch so you leave it there for your spouse to throw away.  Or maybe you even you stop inviting people over so they don't catch you living your past-ripe banana truth.

Until your whole life starts to revolve around the once-banana:

The issue of throwing it out or dealing with the ramifications of ignoring it some more (fruit flies included), wondering if you should ever buy them again since you obviously cannot be a trusted banana-manager, of if you do trying to calculate the exact mathematical ratio of ripeness of bananas purchased x number of people in household x rate of moisture in the house for banana-spoilage timeline x number of packaged products people will eat before they consider consuming said bananas...

Egads.  Where was I?

Oh, yes.  So you have these things in your life that need to get thrown out. (Or composted if you're into that sort of thing.)

But you may be thinking:

"But I spent so much time/money/effort getting that thing-job-friend-relationship-project-calling into my life.  It would be such a shame to waste it."

But my message today was (paraphrased greatly):

The banana is not going to stand up and re-ripen.

So I have some things in my life that I have been debating over.

• Yahoo groups I created or joined
• Social networks I created or joined
• Meetup groups I created or joined
• Relationships with people I am cultivating or, um, not
• Business ideas I am considering
• Concerns over where I should put my energy

And of all the Past Life Regression messages that came to me today the one that stands out - the one I even want to blog about - the one that makes me feel so able to take inspired action in my life...

...is that now I see these things as what they are: old bananas that need to get tossed because no matter how much I may have worked to buy them, bring them home and dream about what I might do with them I am not really ever going to eat them.

A Little Goes A Long Way

Lately I have been feeling so much love.

Part of it has been my interaction with this most amazing man I know, John Davis, who just screams love (if that isn't an oxymoron).

Part of it has been the lovely calm that happens after you move and things are settling in once again - like a gorgeous hot tub soak after the initial hot water sting of "Egads!" turns into "Ahhhh"...

But mostly it is because I have, for the last six months or more, been consistently applying myself to Law of Attraction tools and finding thoughts that feel better and just going with the flow.

Change Happens Over Time
I see it with my clients, too.

Change happens when you consistently apply yourself to it.  Even just 15 minutes a day.  Just a bit of time each day to reconnect, re-prioritize, identify and/or remove a limiting belief...

...something.  Just something you do with conscious intent to be/do/have the life you desire.  To relax.  To flow. To love.

She Says:
I have one client who recently told me:

My Experience With Fire The Grid In 2007

It is 2009 and there is another Fire The Grid meditation:
July 28, 2009 at 19:19 Rio di Janeiro time — 15:19 (3:19 PM California Time, USA).

This is what I wrote after my 2007 Fire The Grid experience:

I had just gotten an email about FTG from a friend a few days before the event, but I didn't actually LOOK at the email until around 9pm the evening of July 16 [just hours before the event].

The FTG website wasn't working so instead I watched Shelley's story on U-Tube.  I was riveted.  I felt so drawn to participate.

As the story wound down the site was working and I got all of the instructions I needed, including the time (4:11am) for me.

I downloaded Bradfield's music [from the Fire The Grid website], set my alarm and went to bed.

As I awoke at 4:05am I felt so connected already.  I sat down and played the music and just wept. I wept for almost 40 minutes.

I felt myself connect to the grid. I felt millions of people around me doing it. I saw Mother Earth wake up, as if she was Shelley's child to say "Now what?" again with a smile.

Over and over I had images of dolphins swimming in the ocean, jumping.  I had images of me flying around the planet leaving rainbows.

I had images of me, I could FEEL me, reach out and hold hands with people next to me and how that energy circled the world.  Then I would reach forward and find two new hands, and over and over I felt the hands and the energy.

Again, I wept.

Then I had the urge to check on my daughter, 3.5 years old, and we had a fun interchange because she had wet the bed, but she was so sweet and we did "life" stuff for a bit and that felt SO APPROPRIATE.

I rubbed her back as she went back to sleep and I felt such energy and love.

Then I came back and listened to some more of the music, felt such gratitude (images of saying my wedding vows to my husband, images of my daughter laying between my husband and I the first hours after she was born, images of the life I love and the amazing things I have already been a part of) and went off to sleep as the hour was closing.

It felt right for me to drift back to sleep with that energy of connection all around me.

It was the most amazing experience and I'm so grateful and thankful to have been a part of it - I'm so grateful to my friend, Marie, for sending me the link, and I'm so grateful to Source Energy for orchestrating it all so that I would be at home with just my child, in the perfect and wonderful alignment to join in.

THANK YOU to Annie and Shelley and Bradfield and to the singer of that wonderful Sky song and to all who made this event a reality.

May more come.

With love and thanks,
Alora

How To Ground Yourself

"You need to ground yourself", someone says.

Well, OK.  But how? And why?

Grounding simply means: be here now.

Sometimes we are mentally all over the place.  We are thinking about the past or the future.  We are worried about events that have not (and may never!) come to pass.

Sometimes we are energetically all over the place.  We are intuiting the subtle energies around us.  We are empathically picking up our neighbor's and co-workers thoughts and feelings.

This can especially happen when we are opening up to our psychic, intuitive or healing gifts.  As we focus more on our spiritual life and the messages from beyond we can forget to focus on our physical, earthly lives.

Symptoms Of Not Being Grounded

Tension vs. Anticipation

Thank you to everyone who encouraged me to do another Video Blog.  It's nice to know that having that much fun is also helpful, inspiring or entertaining for others, too. 

Tonight I had an epiphany about some tension I'd been feeling in my body.

Since many of you are going through a lot of transitions right now I thought you might find this view of transmuting or re-interpreting tension helpful.

Because.... something great is coming!!!

Click the video below to find out more:

Obama Was Sworn In This Morning...Now What?

I have wanted to play with the Video Blog format for some time.  Today was the day.

This Video Blog was created in the style of Neil Diamond.  (As he said in a recent concert I attended... my goal is not to be perfect, but to be real.)

The moment Obama was sworn is as President of the United States I found myself saying, "Now what?"

I then used Law of Attraction principles to immediately shift my intention to something new.

Find out why here:
(and why I was making that face!) *grin*

How I Came To Understand My Quero Apache Name

Maria Yraceburu, my Quero Apache "shima" (auntie-in-spirit) gave me my name in ceremony years ago.  The name was "Ready To Fly".

I cried tears of joy.  I loved my name.  And based on tradition your task is to discover its meaning for yourself rather than run right up and ask, "Maria!  What does it mean?"

At the time I thought I got off easy.  It was so obvious.  Of course I was Ready To Fly!

I had just opened up the San Diego Circle Shamanic Healing Arts Center.  I was learning how to communicate with my Guides and do ceremony.  I was totally ready!

Hey, Wait A Minute...
But as the years went by I got frustrated.

How To Make A Big Life-Changing Decision (The Two Paths Tool)

Do you have a big decision that's weighing you down? Do you want to know which choice is best for you right now? Here is one simple exercise you can do right now to get the clarity and relief you are looking for.

The Fastest Way To Develop Your Psychic Gifts

Are you owning up to your psychic gifts?  Do you want to develop them further?

Of course!

People every day are waking up realizing they can't deny it any more...

...they know that life is more than meets the eye and they want to know how they know that.

My Guides let me in on a little secret today that I want to share with you.  They said: